Of Course The Booker Prize Should Be Open To The World's Writers!Sophie Hardach: "All over London, Spanish-staffed coffee chains sit next to West Indian chicken stalls and Turkish hairdressers. Britain is becoming more like America: a magnet to migrants from all over the world. This includes migrant writers, and not ones just from former colonies. The Booker's old criteria, then, were out of step with reality."
The Atlantic 09/23/13